std.random suggestions

[IchorDev]

On Wednesday, 17 September 2025 at 09:00:44 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
wrote:
>
> To be honest this seems like a major overengineering. It’s a 
> given in a whole lot of languages that random means PRNG with 
> optional seed. The seed could be obtained via some function to 
> be largely unpredictable, with the benefit that you could 
> replay the program with a particular seed to ease debugging / 
> fuzzing etc.
>
> Now of hardware sources most language would provide 
> CryptoRandom which takes the bits from whatever deemed as 
> secure source of random bits, most likely get_random or 
> /dev/urandom (yes it is fine for generating keys, check the 
> literature). Everything else is plain overengineering and 
> deserves to be written in 3rd party library by these willing to 
> pursue it.

Agreed. If anything, std.random is very well designed because it 
uses the range interface in a clever way.